{"id":1934,"date":"2016-02-17T21:20:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2016-02-17T21:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:20:29","slug":"deer-valley-and-meeting-congressman-john-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"Deer Valley (and meeting Congressman John Lewis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have some very lovely friends who invited us for a second year to join them at Deer Valley for Presidents\u2019 Day weekend.\u00a0 Neither Jim nor I ski (growing up in Kansas means you don\u2019t have a lot of mountains nearby), but the kids enjoyed it last year when they tried it.
\nWe started off the trip by bumping into Congressman John Lewis in the airport.\u00a0 He had given a very inspirational talk at our kids\u2019 school a year or two ago, and Jim took this opportunity to have our son meet him (in addition to having heard him) and get a photo together.\u00a0 Congressman Lewis is a genuine civil rights hero, and we very much respect his principled and non-violent stand on civil rights.<\/p>\n

\"with
with Congressman John Lewis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think of the Deer Valley ski resort as the Nordstrom of ski resorts.\u00a0 The staff there from top to bottom is extremely service-oriented and friendly.\u00a0 We must have been asked half a dozen times whether we\u2019d been helped while we were waiting for the kids\u2019 ski instructor.
\nAnd the scenery is beautiful.<\/p>\n

\"Deer
Deer Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both kids picked back up where they left off skiing last year.\u00a0 By the end of the first day of skiing, our son was skiing on the green runs (this would be his 4th time out on skis), and our daughter was skiing the blue runs with reasonable confidence.\u00a0 This improvement and the kids\u2019 ski styles are completely consistent with their personalities.\u00a0 Our daughter skis cautiously with good form\u2014her one desire being not to get herself killed as she goes down the slope.\u00a0 Our son, not having much of a frontal lobe at his age, zips down the slopes unafraid of speed, falling, or ledges.\u00a0 Fortunately, we came back with two whole and undamaged kids (their efforts notwithstanding).<\/p>\n

\"skiing!\"
skiing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What better way to spend Presidents\u2019 Day weekend than with a little bit of history and a lot of fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have some very lovely friends who invited us for a second year to join them at Deer Valley for Presidents\u2019 Day weekend.\u00a0 Neither Jim nor I ski (growing up in Kansas means you don\u2019t have a lot of mountains nearby), but the kids enjoyed it last year when they tried it. We started off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,82],"tags":[388,327,390,389,391],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-fun","tag-deer-valley","tag-family","tag-fun","tag-presidents-day","tag-skiing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-vc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}